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Show LORD SELB0RNE STRONGLY H OPPOSES MIXED MARRIAGE Special Cablegram to The Trlbuno, JOHANNESBURG. Mav 7. The fare-well fare-well address of Lord Solbonio created a sensation which has not yet died down. All ho said laid the greatest stress on Iho superiority nnd responsibility of tho whites, with whom he sympathized, but H ho dlffored from the prevailing tendencv lo lay all tho stress on the black side of H the mulaltoes because he laid stress on tho white side. They varied In charac- tor and characteristics exactly as much H as In external appoarauco and ho believed Uio tendency lo drive mulattoes down to the position of Kaffirs was unjust and IH unwise unjust because tries: often had the thoughts nnd feelings of the white IH man, unwlno bocauso we must consider H that one day "we might have to fnc a H great concerted movement of the native H Lord Selbourne prophesied thai, in the H evont of such a terrible cntastrophe, thev would find the leader of the native races HH to bo mulatloos with the feelings, charac- PH tor and superiority of a white man if M they persisted in tho tendency to degrade H colored people to the condition of the na- lives. Ho considered that, oxcopt where H mulattoes had manifestly adopted Ihe H habits and conditions of natives, thev ought, to bo led up to a condition in which M they could receive the treat mont accorded H to tho white man. Mixed marriages wero H tho last thing ho advocated, because ho H believed them to be utterly hateful and H wrong. H |